March 2012
Watch(via Art Legend / Student Stigmatism on Vimeo)
This video will be featured in a show at Cirrus gallery in LA. Originally recorded while in grad school circa 2001. Should probably dig into the ton of material I made back then. Re-evaluate and maybe post some more of that material.
February 2012
China Mieville: Literature vs. the Thought Police →
belril:
Alternate working title: In Which China Mieville Says Everything I Could Possibly Want to Say About the Indefensibility of Couching Bigoted Speech in First Amendment Arguments About Twelve Times Better than I Ever Could:
Indeed, an astoundingly small proportion of arguments ‘for free speech’ & ‘against censorship’ or ‘banning’ are, in fact, about free speech, censorship or banning....
Plethora Blog: Code as Language →
plethora-project:
At Protoecologics symposium I had the opportunity to engage in the conversation about the nature of the design tools we are using in particular coding. Most of the conversation had to do with open-source but the interesting part of the discussion had to do code as a language. Francois Roche…
Poetry of Code Meets Code of Poetry →
futurejournalismproject:
Via Wired:
Artist and engineer Ishac Bertran has launched a project that invites people to submit poetry written in any coding language. These code poems will be considered for publication in a book.
A code poem is simply a poem written in any programming language including C++, HTML, C#, SQL, Objective C, Applescript and Java. Bertran had the idea when he was...
“Art “upgrades” poorer neighborhoods by aestheticizing their status as urban...”
– Art as Occupation: Claims for an Autonomy of Life | e-flux (via anfischer)
Mishka Henner Discusses 'Less Americains' |... →
robertrauschenberg:
Manchester based artist Mishka Henner recently self-published “Less Américains,” a book consisting of altered photographs from Robert Frank’s iconic book “The Americans”. Henner has transformed Frank’s work by erasing parts of the original images, and he cites Rauschenberg’s infamous Erased de Kooning Drawing as an inspiration for the project. →
“Digital information, unconstrained by packaging, is a continuing process more...”
– John Perry Barlow (via azspot)
Still Not Going To Do This Every Day: Knight News... →
newschallenge:
Today, and for the following 19 days, the Knight News Challenge is open for business. The theme of the challenge is Networks.
The most common question I’ve been asked since we announced the challenge is exactly what we mean by Networks. We’re trying not to define the…
Make Your Thing: 12 Point Program for Absolutely,... →
via boingboing.net
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is on Tumblr! →
Henry Rollins and RE/Search's V. Vale on Occupy...
technoccult:
At the LA Zine Fest, V. Vale tells Henry Rolls about about his idea for an “Occupy Handbook” collecting posters and slogans from the movement worldwide. Rollins talks about his collection of George W. Bush graffiti from around the world.
(via V. Vale on Twitter)
See also:
The official RE/Search site
Richard Metzger and R.U. Sirious on Occupy Wall Street
Original Article
“Serotonin-enhancing antidepressants also suppress obsessive thinking, which is a...”
– Your Brain on Love (via hoodablah)
Datawrapper, a project by DataStory →
jochmann:
Yay, more automated creation of visualization!
You may remember that we are still waiting for visual.ly to open their lab and release the kraken. Erm, I meant their creation tool. Well, here’s a working alternative for you to check out. It’s free, too.
I’ve seen some of the results embedded on German news sites and they looked decent enough. The tool creates solid charts and graphs,...
For a Growing Number of College Students,... →
emergentfutures:
Paul Higgins: Great Idea - Stop complaining about the dark and light a candle
infoneer-pulse:
Wikipedia doesn’t have a stellar reputation for scholarly accuracy, but its staggering collection of 20 million articles in 283 languages has nonetheless made it the go-to reference for the world’s students—it’s even the most plagiarized source on college campuses. Now, a growing...
The Smithsonian Turns To 3D Printing To Share... →
Definition: syzygy
mythologyofblue:
syz·y·gy/ˈsizijē/
Noun: A conjunction or opposition, esp. of the moon with the sun.
A pair of connected or corresponding things.
“Poets and artists live on frontiers. They have no feedback, only feedforward....”
– Marshall McLuhan (via Folkert Gorter)
“Before I talk about my own troubles, let me tell you about another book,...”
– How Bots Seized Control of My Pricing Strategy, via @topfife. (via new-aesthetic)
whiskeyfingers:
I remember once
when I mistook a telephone for twins
they were connected at the head
could you imagine?
Sharing a bed
a brain
a life
moods and illnesses
whims and recklessness?
I can barely keep up with myself.
Turns out the operator was just on the other end of the line,
not the other end of the scalpel.
“Agonism is a political theory that emphasises the potentially positive aspects...”
– Agonism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
